About the past and the present—I don’t know. I… read? or I heard, wayyyyy back when—you know, decades ago—one of these wise Greek, philosophers, or maybe a philosopher out in the far east, said the same thing that we’re saying now: This is terrible—you know, what is happening to our community, or whatever. Nowadays, because...Continue reading
Because we’re such a small group of people, Japanese people, it’s hard to meet someone from the same, uh, ethnic group. So, it’s, it stands to reason that this [intermarriage] would happen. It is… you know, there’s no other way that you could meet some other person—unless you go to Japan, and then, you know,...Continue reading
Raising children… That’s a very difficult question for me. Because my parents were very… gentle. Never laid a hand on us. It was always gentle. Um… they never… said anything about doing the wrong thing or a bad thing, except not to… they said, Don’t deface your family’s name. I remember that. But… I married…...Continue reading
I think it’s because of my parents, that we don’t have too much—trauma, as you call it. Because whenever anybody asked my father, Wasn’t it a terrible war? And you were incarcerated?, he would say: War is war. And left it at that. So, I think we adopted that, um, feeling, or whatever you call...Continue reading
In Greenwood, there were so many children that it was fun—at my age, eight or nine, ten. Lots of friends to play with! We were out there all night, playing! Kick the Can, and… you know, there’s a lots of games that we played. But I had one particular friend. He was, uh… I forget...Continue reading
When it comes to family history, what I think of immediately is how my mother and father got together. My father had a store in Steveston, on Moncton Street, a grocery store, and of course, he couldn’t… he was first-generation Canadian, so he couldn’t speak English that well, and he did have—well, they were called...Continue reading
